The Good Bad Mother Season 1 Episode 7
Young-soon panics about the future after she receives scary news. Another sudden blow forces her to make hard decisions about herself and Kang-ho.
Well-paced and full of gut-wrenching emotion, this episode of The Good Bad Mother packed a lot into an hour. With Kang-ho (Lee Do-hyun) displays some movement again purely out of his desperate instinct to save his mother. Who knows what’ll happen from here?
The Good Bad Mother Season 1 Episode 7 Recap
We begin with some scene setting. Ji-suk buys a cornfield in Jou-ri Village, Sam-sik is tracked down by his former employers, and Young-soon starts legal preparations for her eventual death.
Kang-ho, however, starts noticing his downbeat mother’s “weird” behaviour but soon feels relieved when she takes him into town.
How does Young-soon subtly prepare Kang-ho for her death?
After preventing Kang-ho from being harassed by school children, Young-soon expedites the learning process for her son. To do so, she introduces things like bank books to him and gives him a crash course in pig farming, ensuring he knows what to do with anything from feeding to injecting medicine if he’s left in charge. Elsewhere, Mi-joo and Sam-sik reunite, basking in their shared miserable fate until the latter makes things awkward by questioning his friend’s potential lingering feelings for Kang-ho.
Despite her worsening condition, Young-soon still finds time to show Kang-ho the farming ropes, practising with him some techniques to deal with swindlers.
Yet there’s still a big issue, for Hoon-ah is actively protesting the pig farm’s existence. In response, Young-soon completely loses her rag, viscerally warning the musician that she won’t be “giving up” the space she’s run for so long, even if she dies.
What happens to Young-soon’s farm?
Due to a foot-and-mouth outbreak, a distraught Young-soon essentially loses her farm anyway, given her pigs must be culled. This whole ordeal causes village-wide upset, while Woo-byeok’s men choose to capitalise. Thus, it seems the pair finally find the file they need.
Next, Tae-soo gets ready to marry his daughter into the Dosang Group by buttering up its founder, happy to wax lyrical about how the elder will be the “future of my politics” due to his “rags-to-riches” story. C
Concurrently, Mi-joo rushes out of her new nail salon; worried Young-soon has bought pesticide for a fatal reason.
At Hae-sik’s grave, Young-soon opens up to Kang-ho and explains that he was never allowed to attend picnics because of her fear he wouldn’t return, just like her parents didn’t, and just like her husband didn’t either.
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